Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.

No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

Power always works from the corner office.